After all these times

After Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

After all these times

the preacher speaks,

asking a non-rhetorical

question: what’s the point?

What does the worker

gain from work? Ashes to ashes

and dust to dust, and what

does it get you but dust,

and ashes? And the preachers

says more: God lays a burden

on men (on us; don’t take

this gender stuff literally),

Everything is beautiful,

not in its own way

but in its own time

because it’s made that way.

It is.

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